Word: surveying
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...gather the most informed opinion possible on the outlook, TIME last week conducted its own survey of 17 leading forecasters. They were chosen for their reputations and the accuracy of their past predictions. The economists represent academia, the financial community and business, and include several experts from Europe and Japan...
...essential steps toward keeping inflation in check -- and correcting the trade imbalance -- is a substantial reduction in the federal budget deficit. Years of excessive Government spending have put upward pressure on prices and helped overstimulate demand for imports. Many of the economists in the survey saw the recent budget compromise fashioned by Congress and the White House, which is intended to trim $30 billion from the deficit next year, as woefully inadequate. "The 1987 budget had a lot of phony stuff in it that will come back to haunt us in 1988," warns Jerry Jordan, chief economist at First Interstate...
Revenues too. Those were nourished by the Reagan-era frenzy of corporate mergers that generated tens of millions in fees. A survey by the monthly American Lawyer showed 20 firms this year with gross revenues of $100 million- plus. Two years ago, just five were in that elite. The leader, 840-lawyer Skadden, Arps, had gross revenues of around $228 million. With offices in eight cities, its weekly partnership lunches require an audio hookup to link conference rooms...
...alcoholics a year. Drunk drivers were responsible for approximately half the 46,000 driving fatalities in the U.S. in 1986. Alcohol was implicated in up to 70% of the 4,000 drowning deaths last year and in about 30% of the nearly 30,000 suicides. A Department of Justice survey estimates that nearly a third of the nation's 523,000 state-prison inmates drank heavily before committing rapes, burglaries and assaults. As many as 45% of the country's more than 250,000 homeless are alcoholics...
...evidence that readers agree came last week, when the Times Mirror company published the latest installment of its "People, Press & Politics" survey. Two-thirds of the 1,501 Americans polled by the Gallup Organization said journalists had gone "too far" in reporting the Hart-Rice story. The same proportion disapproved of the revelation about the date of Pat Robertson's wedding, which occurred after his first child was conceived. But significant pluralities felt that the press had "acted properly" in reporting Joe Biden's plagiarism as well as the role of Michael Dukakis' campaign staff in Biden's downfall...